European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday augusts 1988 the stars and stripes Page 7 Cool hiding place if s been hot in Chicago a record High easy to understand Why Park worker seven Days of temperatures of 100 de John Odom or. Sought Refuge in a Cool Grees or More through midweek. So it s spot at the Burnham Park yacht club. Bill prescribes cure for medical waste in three state area Washington a the Senate voted wednesday to create a mandatory system to track medical waste disposal problem that has left some Northeast shores littered with used syringes handmade Beach closings a summer of 88 Bill drafted by sen. Frank Lau Tenberg d-n.j., would require the environmental Protection Agency to track Hospital waste disposal in new York new Jersey and Connecticut through an elaborate paper Trail mandating detailed manifests of medical items from Point of generation to Point of it also would require the Epa to Monitor beaches in new York new Jersey and new England for medical waste. We need to track this material from Cradle to grave to make sure it does t find its Way in the water and on our beaches Lautenberg said. We be had enough of the assault on our Lautenberg and sen. Bill Bradley d-n.j., criticized Epa officials for not Tak ing the action on their own but the Agency s top official said the legislation is necessary to create the Pilot program. The Bill is a response to medical de Bris that has polluted the new Jersey Shoreline last year and again this for legislative action built As More syringes blood vials and other hos Pital waste appeared on Long Island beaches in new York just after the fourth of july weekend and later along the new England coast As far As Northern in new England have found dozens of Needles syringes Catheter bags rubber tubing a colostomy bag an Respirator parts in recent weeks believed to have floated up from the new Yor Karea. Harder hit beaches in new York and new Jersey have been forced to close regularly this summer devastating the tourism Lautenberg proposal carries Crimi Nal penalties for illegal Hospital waste dumping ranging up to $50,000 for each Day of violation and five years in prison. Violator who dumps the materials and knowingly endangers the Public faces up to $250,000 in fines and 15 years in incidence of Hospital waste on Rhode Island beaches makes it Clear that this is no longer just a problem for new York and new Jersey but the entire East coast said sen. John h. Chafee . Our beaches have been ravaged said sen. Alfonse d Amato . When we think of our beaches today we think of syringes sewers and measure passed on a voice vote. Earlier in the Day Epa administrator Lee Thomas endorsed the legislation after meeting with Chafee and sen. Clai borne Pell . He said such special legislation was needed to install a waste tracking system in the tri state measure would give the Agency far More specific and direct authority than i currently have Thomas said. It would be a Good Lautenberg charged that the Feder al Agency has the authority without the medical waste As on other issues the Epa continues to stand for the environmental procrastination Agency Lautenberg re tired of waiting for Epa to act under the authority Congress has already Given them. It is regrettable that legislation is required to Force Epa to do its similar Bill drafted by rep. James Florio d-n.j., is pending in the said Epa officials using Heli copters and ships Are working with the coast guard National oceanic and atmospheric administration and state officials to try to determine where the illegal waste is coming from and to Monitor water Island attorney James o Neil said after the meeting with Thomas tha Tepa officials would join a new England task Force to centralize the medical waste investigation. We have agreed to Workin a coordinated fashion he said. Wii planes found buried in Greenland ice. I. I Atlanta a six american fighters and two bombers that crash landed on the Greenland Icecap during world War ii have been discovered 46 years later buried under 260 feet of ice searchers said wednesday. An Atlanta based group located the lost Squadron in july and plans to Tun Nel Down into the ice and slide the eight air planes to the surface. Then if we can Pat Epps and i Are going to Fly two of them off the ice expedition co Leader Richard Taylor said. The others will be dismantled and returned to the United states for Restora Tion. Some will be sold to pay for the expedition. We have a meeting tomorrow thursday with a contractor from Seattle who is accustomed to doing arc tic work. We Are soliciting a proposal to excavate the air planes said Taylor an Atlanta architect. Proposals also Are being sought from a danish company and a company from Iceland. The Saga of Bolero Mission s Tomca Blue and tomcat yellow flights began july 15, 1942, As the two b-17 bombers were escorted by the six p-38 fighters Ona flight from Greenland to Reykjavik Iceland. They ran into bad weather. A German submarine jammed their communications with Reykjavik and the planes Lowon fuel and unable to find their Destina Tion returned to Greenland where they belly landed on the ice about 10 Miles Inland. All 25 Crew members were rescued but the top secret Norden bomb sight was left on one of the bombers. Maj. Norman Vaughan was sent by dog sled to retrieve the bomb sight be cause the air Force did t want it to fall into the hands of the germans who had weather stations in the area. Vaughan the last Man to see the eight aircraft is part of the Greenland expedition society which has been working since 1981 to find the aircraft. More than a dozen expeditions and an assortment of supporters have sought the planes but there have been no con firmed locations until now. This year Epps owner of Epps air service in suburban Atlanta began anew expedition with Taylor Vaughan and investors who had received Permis Sion from the danish government to search for the used two forms of subsurface radar a Metal Detector and a steam probe which uses High pressure steam to Drill through developed by Helgi Bjornsson of the University of Iceland located the first aircraft june 30. On july 2, six More were we went to the site of the b 17, planted the american Flag had Sun Day morning services at the site and started the Steamer Taylor first Day they hit the plane twice at 263 feet and missed it about 10 times. Eventually they hit the plane six times. Guardsmen join drug search of Texas Border Hidalgo Texas a National guard troops searched cargo trucks from Mexico in this Border City wednesday As part of an Experiment using the soldiers in the Battle against drug smugglers. The troops Are among More than 100 National guard personnel to work with . Customs at Border Points in Texas Arizona and Florida said Charles Conroy a customs spokesman in Houston. They re looking for narcotics said Gilbert Medina supervisor of cargo enforcement at Hidalgo an Inland port 10 Miles South of Mcallen in the lower Rio Grande Valley. We re intensifying More vehicles More trailers just intensifying the examinations Medina said As an unarmed guardsman dressed in camouflage fatigues and army boots looked through an 18-Wheeler loaded with Jalapeno peppers. Nearby trucks loaded with television sets and mangos awaited inspection. Every vehicle coming out of Mexico is subject to inspection Medina said. The troops underwent two Days of training monday and tuesday Conroy said. Today for All practical purposes was the first Day on the Job Conroy said. Troops also were sen wednesday to work with customs in Brownsville he added. The Experiment is set to last through aug. 20. Author poet Carver Dies port Angeles Wash. A author and poet Raymond Carver acclaimed for his Short stones about the difficulties of love and financial problems in the lives of Ordinary people died at his Home Here tues Day of cancer at age 50
